Mairi

“self-consciousness has little space in aquatic sports, where athletes constantly pad across the deck in the bright, unforgiving sunlight, every imperfection up for inspection. But in the pool, my body is a machine—all that matters is what it can accomplish.”
― Ali Hazelwood, Deep End

“Liquid sunrise poured into her soul, and she woke each morning full of hope.”
― Lauren J.A. Bear, Medusa's Sisters

“That’s your opinion,’ retorted Millon. ‘Right now there is nothing more important than me.’ ‘How very human,’ replied Stig simply.”
― Jasper Fforde, Something Rotten: Thursday Next Book 4

“It was like comparing the cold unyielding beauty of the stars to the bloom of a flower, something impermanent and imperfect but all the more lovely for it.”
― Luna McNamara, Psyche and Eros